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Hello friends. I'm coming to you today. A little weary.

Quite a lot tired and also very moved and just feeling a lot of collective love that I want to share and reflect back.

Today in some ways I acknowledge that this chat might be a little heavy but I also think that it can open up so much empathy for someone in your life if you aren't immediately coming into it with it resonating as to your story.

And I'll say I'm not going to share many details of my brother-in-law's story that go on me. I'll link in the description. You can read the details over there.

But for me, the word influencers has a lot of connotations and it's not something I would normally use to describe myself but in this context I would say that for a lot of traditional influencers it really is about following their life.

Because their life is pretty or interesting or something. And that's why I don't consider myself an influencer in that way. I'm a teacher.

I'm here to take what I'm learning in my life and I'm with rare exceptions like, yeah, I'm engaged with my fiance. With rare exceptions I'm here.

I see my role in the world to see what I am learning from my own life and share it if I feel that it is applicable to bless yours.

And that's why I want to share my experience of the last two weeks and three days, I guess at this point.

One step removed from the center of a traumatic story and that could be illness, injury, loss.

But yesterday I shared on Instagram stories. I will link that video below as well. I'm sorry. I shared on my Instagram profile the news that my 26 year old brother-in-law, the youngest of the eight siblings in Jeremy's family was in a mountain biking accident.

And fractured his C5 vertebrae, which is up towards the top of your neck and was instantly paralyzed and given a 1 to 2% chance of ever getting out of a wheelchair.

Which is, I mean, it's the opening scene in Friday night lights for anyone who is of of my age and loves coach Taylor and Tammy Taylor and Tim Riggins and the whole clan from the Friday night lights show it is the opening nightmare scene where the quarterback gets sacked and can't get back up and is in a wheelchair.

I mean, it's the movie moment that just has you sobbing from the beginning of that show. And it's the moment that you see in TV and film. And I think for anyone, you know, I've been thinking about how no family.

Every family is blindsided when this happens because you never think it's going to happen to you not from a place of cockiness and feeling like you're above it.

It just is so incomprehensible to imagine that this would be your life that you you never think about it. And if you do think about it, you you don't even know how to process it.

You don't even know what thoughts you would have about it. And so when it happens, there is this sense of shock.

And it's kind of an out of body experience because you feel like I have seen this on social media. I have seen this in TV and film.

But, blessedly, I have not been through this. I have watched this as the observer. And yet yesterday in sharing, I'm recording this on Tuesday, I shared this on Monday, I was so overwhelmed by the amount of people that this is your story.

And this is one story, a spinal cord injury is one story. Then you've got traumatic brain injury, then you have burns, then you have cancer, then you have, I mean, there's so many different injury illness, loss.

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